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Aj Ty v IT — Slovakia's Girls-in-IT Nonprofit Adds AI to Its National Coding Curriculum

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Slovak nonprofit Aj Ty v IT has reached 65,000+ girls, women and teachers with IT workshops since 2012; backed by a €200,000+ Google.org grant, it now runs AI curricula, including a hands-on micro:bit AI workshop, in a country where women hold just 9.2% of ICT jobs.

>65,000 girls, women and teachers
Cumulative reach since 2012 (2012-2026)
9.2 %
Women in ICT-specialist jobs in Slovakia
~12 %
Women among informatics students at STU Bratislava and UNIZA
>200,000 EUR
2018 Google.org grant (2018)
~5,000 girls
Secondary-school girls targeted by the grant-funded plan (2018)
1,000 girls
Girls targeted for advanced "Programming Group" training (2018)
Aj Ty v IT — Slovakia's Girls-in-IT Nonprofit Adds AI to Its National Coding Curriculum

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Aj Ty v IT
Period
2012–2026
Region (NUTS)
SK01
Keywords
AI literacy, gender equality, girls in ICT, nonprofit

Context

Aj Ty v IT ("You Too in IT") is a Bratislava-based nonprofit founded in 2012 to close Slovakia's gender gap in technology, where women hold just 9.2% of ICT-specialist jobs and about 12% of students at the STU Bratislava and UNIZA informatics faculties are women.

Activities

Backed by a 2018 Google.org grant of over €200,000, the organisation runs nationwide Coding Club workshops and an advanced "Programming Group," and has broadened into AI: the ENTER Hackathon workshop (with the Telekom Foundation Fund via the Pontis Foundation) teaches girls aged 10-14 to build and train a simple AI model on a micro:bit board, and its Women AI/Machine Learning Academy trains adult women from data analytics through building and evaluating machine-learning models.

Results

The organisation reports reaching more than 65,000 girls, women and teachers across Slovakia since 2012, spanning basic coding introductions through to its newer AI-specific tracks; this cumulative total is self-reported, not independently audited, and not broken out by AI-specific participation.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Backed by a 2018 Google.org grant of over €200,000 plus support from the Telekom Foundation Fund via the Pontis Foundation; no full programme budget published.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Founded 2012; Google.org grant 2018; AI-specific tracks (ENTER Hackathon, Women AI/ML Academy) added subsequently, ongoing as of 2026.
Staffing & skills
Aj Ty v IT nonprofit staff, Telekom Foundation Fund / Pontis Foundation (ENTER Hackathon partner)

Conditions for success

  • Philanthropic seed funding (Google.org grant)
  • Partnerships with corporate foundations (Telekom Foundation Fund via Pontis Foundation)
  • Targeting underrepresented groups (girls, women) directly

Common failure modes

  • Self-reported cumulative reach not independently audited or broken out by AI-specific participation

Where it fits

Governance type
nonprofit-led
Scale
national (Slovakia)
Income level
high-income

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Philanthropic / foundation funding National / regional programmes

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